Ticket-vending machine.



' No. 879,284. PATENTED FEB. 18, 1908.

W. G. MAYO & J. HOULEHAN. TICKET VENDING MACHINE.

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TICKET VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, 1907.

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OF EL PASO, TEXAS, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO GEORGE E. BRIGGS, OF ELPASO, TEXAS.

'lH'JKJiT-VENDINGv MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1908.

Application filed February 2.1907. Serial No.- 355.468;

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. MAYO and JOHN HOULEHAN, citizens of theUnited States, residing at El Paso, in the county, of El Paso and Stateof Texas, have invented a new and useful Ticket-Vending Machine, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in coin-controlled ticketselling machines, and its object is to provide means web ma be deliveredone by one each time a suitable coin is inserted, the said web being fedforward by mechanism operated through the intermediary of the saidinserted coin, and the tickets being finally cut from the web anddelivered to the customer.

The invention consists essentially of means whereby the coin inserted isemployed as the intermediary for transmitting-motion to an operatingsystem of levers through a portion of their travel necessary for thecomplete operation of the machine, then releasing the coin so that itmay drop into a suitable receptacle, and finally com leting theoperation of the machine after t e coin has passed beyond the control ofthe purchaser, so that by no means can the purchaser retract the cointhrough the opening in which it was in serted.

The invention also comprises means whereby any cord or wire attached tothe coin by an unscrupulous person for the purpose of removing the coinafter the machine has been operated, will be severed before theoperation of the machine is complete and the coin will therefore fallinto the receptacle provided for it.

Theinvention also comprises means whereby notice is given' to anintended customer that the machine has become exhausted of its contents, should such be the case, and the customer is therebysaved theloss of his coin.

The invention will be fully understood from the following descriptiontaken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of thiss ecific atlon, 1n WhlOl1,--

Figure 1 is avertica section on the linex-x of Flg. 3; Fig. 2' is asimilar section of the lower portion of the machine, showing anotherphase of operation from that shown .in Fig. 1; Fi 3 is a cross sectionof the machine upon the inc (1 of Fig. 1 Fig. 4 is. an end e evation ofthe elivery portion of themachine; and Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views ofin the form of a continuous.

the coin-grasping heads of the operating system of lever Referring tothe drawings, there is shown a casing 1 of suitable construction withinwhich, near its upper end, is mounted a shaft or spindle 2 for carryinga roll consisting of a continuous Web 3 upon which the tickets to bedelivered by the machine may be printed seriat'im. In the lower portionof the casing there is another shaft 4 u on which is mounted a tootheddisk 5, tl e teeth 6 of which are spaced apart a distance equal to thelength of a ticket, and fast upon this disk 5there is a toothed ratchetWheel 7 having a similar number of teeth 8 as there are teeth 6 on thedisk 5. The ticket web is fed from the roll carried u on the shaft 2over and around the disk 5 w 'ch is located immediately below it, andultimately reaches an opening 9 leading into a rece tacle 10 where theticket falls within reach oi a customer after having been severed fromthe web by means to be hereinafter described.

Appropriatelylocated on one side of the casing is a late 11 in which isformed a coinreceiving s 0t '12 opening into a vertical coinchute 13,the bottom '14 of which is closed and slightl inclined, as shown, whileone side of the ower end of this coin chute is cut away, as shown at 15,to admit of the passage of pertain portions of the operating mechanism.

Outside the casing there is an operating lever 16 mounted upon an arbor17 suitably 1ournaled in the cas' g and carryingat its inner end a dog18 so located as to normally lie partly within the lower end of the coinchute 13. Also lying normally within this lower end of the coin chute 13is the upper curved head 19 of a lever 20, which latter is pivotallymounted upon a stud 21 projecting om a plate 22 fast on the inner sideof the casing and also constituting a support for the arbor 17. The do18 has formed on one side, so as to partiafiy embrace the coin, a cheek23 terminating curved end 19 of the lever 20 has formed thereon a lip 25so located as to partially embrace the other side of the coin when itreaches the bottom of the chute. Now, on

in a" nose 24, and the moving the lever lfi'about its axis, the dog 18will be forced toward the curved head '19 of the lever 20-and the coinwill begrasped by these two parts, so that the movement of tacle 27located the dog 18 will be transmitted to the lever 20 and the latterwill participate in such movement.

In the path of the nose 24 of the dog 18 the lever 20 has formed on it alug 26, and the upper face of the cheek 23 is so curved as to constitutea cam face which, on the continued movement of the dog on its axis,ultimately comes in contact with the lug 26, as shown in Fig. 2, andforces the lever 20 to turn on its pivot more rapidly than is themovement of the dog 18. Because, of this more rapid movement of thelever 20, the head 19 is moved away from the dog'18 and the coin is nolonger held between these two parts, and, therefore, drops into therecepin the bottom of the casing, and indicated by dotted lines in Fig.1.

At the junction of the cheek plate and body of the dog 18 the latter'iscurved, as shown, to constitute a pocket to receive the edge of thecoin, and at its upper end this pocket is formed with a sharp edge 28against which a cord or wire, if fastened to a coin by an unscrupuloususer, will be brought, and any effort to withdraw the coin will resultin 4 the severing of this cord or wire and the coin through the opening9.

projected through said slot 9.

will thereofre fall into the receptacle pro .vided for it.

The other end of the lever 20 is connected by a link 29 to a rock arm 30mounted upon a stud 31 near the lower end of the casing and adjacent tothe disk 5 and ratchet 7 thereof. Near the upper end -of this rock arm30 is pivoted a pawl 32 controlled by a spring 33 fast to projectingfingers 34-35 on the rock arm 30 and pawl 32 respectively. During themovement of the lever 20 under the action of the dog 18 and coin betweenthe same and the further movement of the lever 20 under the directaction of the dog 18, the rock arm 30 has been moved by means of theconnecting link 29 in a direction to rot ate the disk 5 to draw theticket web from the roll mounted onthe shaft 2,

I When the lever 16 is released by the user, the parts all return totheir normal osition through the action of a spring to be escribed, andthen the pawl 32 is moved back into engagement with another tooth '8 ofthe ratchet 7.

Near the ivotal oint of the rock lever 30 it is rovi ed witl i a rightangle arm 36 where y this portion of the'lever is converted into abell-crank lever, and by means of a link 37 the member 36 of this lever30 is connected to one end of another lever 38 pivoted at 39 in thecasing and having the end 40 projecting from the other side of the pivotin engagement with a knife blade 41 pivoted at 42 so as to move acrossthe slot 9 at the ticket-delivery end of the machine and thereby shearofl the tickets after they have been The action of the parts controllingthe knife 41 is so timed and also to force that this knife will reachthe web to be severed after it has been projected a sufficient distanceto correspond with the length of a ticket; that is, the knife moves intoposition to sever the ticket during the return stroke of the actuatingmechanism to normal position, at which time the ticket web has alreadybeen moved a sufficient distance a through the opening 9 and is thenstationary,

In order to return the several parts to their normal position, the lever38 is under the control of the spring 42 so acting that when theoperating lever 16 is moved by the customer this spring will be putunder additional stress, and when said lever 16 is released by thecustomer all the parts will return to their initial position.

In order to apprise a customer that the machine is empty, should such bethe fact, there is provided a follower arm 43 pivotally mounted on astud 44 projecting downward from the top of the casing. This follower 7arm 43 carries upon one end a roller 45 engaging the periphery of theweb roll mounted upon the shaft 2 andwhich is heavy enough to fall bygravity and follow the web roll as the diameter of the latter decreases.

Secured to the casing adjacent to the opening 12 there is under thecontrol of a spring 47 fast at one end to the casing and at the other toa finger 48 on the plate 46 at one side of the pivot point, so that thisspring at all times tends to 7 move said plate across the opening 12 andthereby close said opening, the plate, under those circumstances,abutting against the uper end of the coin chute 13. This plate 46 18held away from the opening 12 by a hooked a pivoted shutter plate 46'rod 49 having a hook 50 arranged to engage a fixed pin 51 on the side ofthe casing, and this pin is located in the path of an angle fin er 52fast on the arm 43, so that as the arm is lowered by the exhaustion of.the ticket web, the finger 52 will ultimately bebrou'ght into engagementwith thehooked rod 49 and force the hook 50 out of engagement with thepin 51, whereupon the spring 47 will immediately move the plate 46across the opening 12 and so close the same, thus notifying the customerthat the machine is out of commission. It will be understood, of course,that the relative lengths of the arm 43 and finger 52 are such thattheir movements are properly timed to perform the functions ascribed tothem. The plate 46 may either carry or be made to manipulate a legendwhich will notify the intended customer that the machine has becomeexhausted.

It will be observed that'should an attempt be made'to operate themachine without first inserting a coin, the nose 24 of the dog 18 willintermediary of an inserted coin to bring the .;cam face mto engagementwith the lug to j accelerate the speed of the lever and. thereby i ofthe coin between the dog and the pivoted nected to said dog, and apivoted member connected to the vending mechanism and and hatinga cheekformed on one side, with when a coin of the proper size is inserted in lthe machine that the nose 24 and the cam face formed by the. cheek '23will engage the a face of the lug Qtibecause the coin has caused asuflicient movement of the lever 20 upon I its pivot to enable the nose24 to escape contact with the top of the lug 26.

In order to limit the downward movement of the operating lever 16, thereis arranged in the path of the same on the outside of the casing a stoppin 53, the action of which will be apparent'from the position of saidlever i as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

I claim 1. In a coin-controlled vending machine, an operating lever, adog carried thereby and I provided with a cam-face cheek terminating fin a nose, and a lever connected to the vending mechanism and providedwith a cheek coacting with the cheek on the dog to constituteareceptacle for a coin, said lever being also provided with a lug andarranged to be movedby the said dog through the 5 release the coin.

traverse thecoin conduit], an operating means exterlor to the maclnneand conhaving a head provided with a-cheek normally overlapping thecheek on the dogbut spaced therefrom to form a receptacle between thetwocheeks, for a coin, said pivo'ted member also being provided with alug in the path of the cam face on thedog. y

\ 3. In a coin-"controlled vending machine, a pivoted dog normallywithin a coin conduit the body of the dog adjacent to the cheek curvedto constitute a pocket to receive the edge ofa coin, and a pivotedmember connected to the vending mechanism and also having a cheeknormally overlapping the cheek on the dog but spaced therefrom, said.space constituting a pocket for the reception member.

4. In a vending machine, a coin conduit, a pivoted dog having formed on.one side a cheek normally extending into the coin'conduit, said doghaving its edge adjacent to the cheek curved to constitute a pocket toreceive the edge of a coin and terminating at its upper end in a sharpedgeand said dog being arranged tetra-verse the coin conduit, and apivoted member connected to the vending mechanism and provided with ahead between which and the dog an inserted coin is grasped.

5. In a coin controlled vending machine provided with a coin ,chute and.containing the material to be vended in the form of a 5 roll, a followerhaving a slowv progressive 'movementcaused by the reduction in diameterof the roll, a shutter for the coin slot atthe entrance of the coinchute normally out of engagement therewith and locked against movement,actuatmg means for the shutter individual theretofor causing a quicktraverse of the shutter across the coin slot, and means on the followeractive at the completion of its movement when the roll is exhausted tothen unlock the shutter to the control of the individual actuating meanstherefor.

6. In a coin-controlled vending machine for I tickets, a web roll oftickets contained in said machine, coin-controlled mechanism for feedingthe tickets from said web, a shutter for closing the coin slot, a springtending to move the shutter to the closed position, a latch normallyholding the shutter in the open position, a gravity follower resting onthe web roll, and an unlatching finger for the shutter carried by saidfollower and tuned in movementto release the shutter-when the web rollis exhausted.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have heretoattixed our s1gnatures in the presence of two'witnesses.

WILLIAh-l C. MAYO. JOHN HOULEHAN.

- Witnesses to signature of WM. C. MAYO:

W. A. WARNoorr, JOHN L. SPADER. Witnesses to signature of JOHN HOULEHANA. M. WATEHALL, HARRIS'WATEHALL.

